Kaizen

Father, it has been 8 months since my last confession - I think thats how it goes. The time has come again for me to pack up my life and head off on loosely planned and poorly researched adventures - I’m not sure whats in store but I’m sure it’ll be entertaining, I hope you join me. Taking care of business in Melbourne After 20...

Come follow along for another year of travel at www.michaelwingsit.comIf you’ve been following along on this Medium page during my travels on Remote Year, I’d like to first say thank you. I still don’t exactly know how I ended up with 2K followers (and briefly held the designation as “Top Writer in Travel”), but hey, I’m not going to question it.I was inspired to start this...

Alternative title: “How to Use Someone Else and Their Umbrella as Your Umbrella” Have you ever found yourself heading outside, maybe already running late, only to discover that it’s frickin’ raining?! Goddamnit. If you run back up to get your umbrella, you’ll be even more late! Okay, you say to yourself, you must improvise. What’s your best plan of attack? You have to go at least five...

Have you ever read a variant of one of those “Steps on How to Do Life Right” articles, and seen that one of the things you must have to be a successful human is to have a mentor? Well I have, many a time. And I love the idea of having a mentor! But how do I permanently bind someone to me and become their...

How do you get a job when you’re pretty sure no one is looking at your application materials, but you know you would be a bomb-ass employee? Conventional wisdom says the solution is networking. This girl’s wisdom says the answer is to create a sandwich board announcing to the world how good at stuff you are, and then to wear that around New York until...

“Adulting” is a skill. It must be learned, but it often isn’t taught. If there were such a thing as “adult” school, there should 100% be a class on heartbreak. Sure, teenagers may experience heartbreak, but what about the heartbreak you may experience after your first true adult relationship? Depending on the intensity of the heartbreak, it may feel like your brain has been rewired,...

Raise your hand if you actually floss everyday. I see just a few of you in the back! Good for you, everyone should be more like Homer! Now raise your hand if instead, you’re the type that explains to your dentist how you fell off the flossing wagon for just a few months, but really it’s been years. Am I the only one?...

I masochistically read it at least once a week. It just hurts so good!I couldn’t find any dryer sheets anywhere and was pretty bummed about it, but then I realized that I packed some from Day 1 because someone told me to as a Premote to keep stuff smelling fresh n clean. I had not used them until then (Month 11), but it was SO glorious....